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The Jewish Veteran magazine is the official publication of Jewish War Veterans of the USA. The magazine is published five times a year and offers valuable information on various topics such as Jewish issues, foreign policy, veterans affairs, military history, JWV news and Museum News.

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Volume:61, Year: 2008

Number 3, Season: Fall

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  • Passover in the Desert
  • Memories of a Handshake
  • VA Health Center Named for Sgt John Levitow
  • "Take It Like A Soldier: A Memoir"

Volume:61, Year: 2008

Number 2, Season: Summer

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  • Jews in the Military
  • JVW Allied Veterans Mission to Israel
  • PNC Charles Feuereisen: In Memoriam
  • National Commander Candidates Announcements
  • Warrior of the North
  • When Every Second Counts

Volume:61, Year: 2008

Number 1, Season: Spring

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  • WWII Soldier Finally Receives His Bronze Star
  • "My Son, the Fighter Pilot" by: By Norman M. Schulman, Ed.D.
  • Introducing the New JWV Online Forum
  • "It's Time To Plan" by: Seymour Weinstein, Legacy and Welfare Chairman

Volume:60, Year: 2007

Number 5, Season: Winter

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  • "Host a Legislative Breakfast to Get Your Department’s Message Across at the State and Local Level"
  • "LET US NOT COMMIT THE SIN OF SILENCE" by: Robert E. Pickard, M.D., COL (r), JWV 75th Anniversary of March against Nazism Chairman, President Florida Gulf Stream Chapter AUSA
  • "Across the Generations of Jewish Military Service" by: Isaac Greenberg

Volume:60, Year: 2007

Number 4, Season: Fall

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  • "Combat Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" by: Dr. Jacob M. Romo, Ph.D., LCSW
  • "Jewish War Veterans group advocates for U.S. soldiers" by: Adam Parker
  • "2007 Convention Overview" by: Cheryl Waldman

Volume:60, Year: 2007

Number 3, Season: Summer

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  • "From Generation to Generation" by: Julian Stuart Haber
  • "The Second Lebanon War and Jerusalem Post 180" by: PC Arnold Sullum
  • "At Last, He Finds a Special Peace" by: Bob Kerr

Volume:60, Year: 2007

Number: 2, Season: Spring

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  • "JWV Storms the Hill!" By: Col Herb Rosenbleeth
  • "Remembering Our Mission" By: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • "A Withdrawel or a Redeployment from Reality" By: Bob Zweiman,
  • "Lessons in Increasing Membership" By: Neil Goldman

Volume:60, Year: 2007

Number: 1, Season: Winter

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  • "My Own Hero" By: LK Levine
  • "Memories of the Greatest Generation" By: Gwendolyn Davis
  • "Jewish War Veterans Thankful for Troops" By: Master Sgt. Denice Rankin
  • "Our Chain of Service Continues to Grow" By: Norman Rosenshein

Volume:59, Year: 2006

Number: 5, Season: End of Year

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  • "Lest We Forget the Ritchie Boys" By: Jerry Kasten
  • "Sid Gritz, My Rabbi" By: Anthony V. Fasolo
  • "Journey of a Belleville Lad with Jewish Neighbors" By: Rev. Msgr. John Gilchrist
  • "The Mission: The Veteran" By: Norman Rosenshein

Number: 4, Season: Fall

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  • "Israeli General Says WWIII Is Here: The Retired Military Leader Blames Iran for Most of the Problems in the Middle East" By: Peter Bacqué
  • "Quadrennial Defense Review: Excerpts from Remarks by Maj. Gen. Howard Bromberg to the 111th Annual Convention of the JWV, August 10, 2006" By: Maj. Gen. Howard Bromberg
  • "Convention 2006 Overview" By: Cheryl Waldman
  • "Excerpts from Remarks by VA Secretary R. James Nicholson to the 111th Annual National Convention of the JWV" By: VA Secretary R. James Nicholson

Number: 3, Season: Summer

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  • "Shalom To You!" By: Chaplain Mitchell Schranz
  • "Excerpts from a Speech for USNA Jewish Midshipmen Baccalaureate Service Commodore Uriah P. Levy Chapel, 21 May 2006" By: Captain Paul Becker
  • "Guarding Against Identity Theft"

Number: 2, Season: Spring

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  • "J.W.V. - a Place at the Table" By: National Commander David L. Magidson
  • "Mission Accomplished!" By: Robert Pickard, M.D., Col.(Ret.) MC, National Editor
  • "NEC Highlights" By: PDC George Sepp and DC Barry Mann

Number: 1, Season: Winter

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  • "Chanukah in Iraq, 2006" By: Rabbi Mitch Schranz
  • "JWV in the Heartland" By: Margo Lemberger
  • "Two warriors cross paths: Moshe Dayan and Abe Baum" By: Paul Flanzer
  • "Veterans Day, 2005" By: LT. Meredith Steingold, at Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in Charleston, S.C

Volume:58, Year: 2005

Number: 5, Season: Winter

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  • "My Experience as a Jewish US Army Physician in Iraq" By: Josh Lipschutz, M.D.,
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
  • "Keeping Military Marriages Strong" By: Leslie Brody
    Reprinted with permission from The Record, of North Jersey
  • "West Point - Two Centuries of Jewish Life and Culture" By: Adam R. Sasso
    2LT, US Army

Number: 4, Season: Fall

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  • "Fifty-Six Years Late and Just on Time:Tibor Rubin Receives the Medal of Honor" By: Michelle Spivak Melinger
  • "Beirut 1983: An Indelible Memory" By: Donald H. Harrison Reprinted with permission from the San Diego Jewish Times
  • "It's the Constitution - Sir*" By: Remarks by MeLinda Morton at the 110th JWV Annual Convention
  • "CONVENTION PLUS" By: Co-Editor's Corner Bob Zweiman, PNC
  • "VA Focusing on Mental Health, Official Says: Quality Care Vowed for New Veterans" By: Rick Rogers, Staff Writer

Number: 3, Season: Summer

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  • "Passover in Boot Camp-1943" By: Richard Golden, Adjutant, JWV Post 202
  • "Army's First Female Rabbi Celebrates Passover with Victory Troops" By: Spc. Mary Rose
  • "After Sixty Years, A Thank You" By: Gabe Ferber, Post 25
  • "The Twentieth Allied Mission to Israel" By: Norman Rosenshein, National Budget Officer
  • "UP OR DOWN VOTE-FACT, FICTION OR FANTASY?" By: COMMENTARY Robert M. Zweiman, PNC Chairman, Coordinating Committee

Number: 2, Season: Spring

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  • "A Deluge of Troubled Soldiers Is in the Offing, Experts Predict" By: SCOTT SHANE; Richard A. Oppel Jr. contributed reporting from Baghdad for this article.
  • "Freedom Is Not Free" By: MAJ Brian M. Adelson
  • "HOPE AND HONOR: Major General Sid Shachnow" By: Colonel Herb Rosenbleeth, USA(Ret), National Executive Director
  • "NEVER AGAIN!!! NEVER FORGET!!! OH, NEVER MIND" By: PNC Bob Zweiman, Chairman, Coordinating Committee
  • "PNC Edward D. Blatt, 1928-2005" By: JWV

Number: 1, Season: Winter

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  • "Hanukkah in Kabul" By: U.S. Army Lt. Col. Susan H. Meisner, JWV Post #10, Jersey City, New Jersey
  • "Military Service Does Not Pay Later in Life" By: Alan B. Krueger
  • "The Zion Mule Corps, the Jewish Legion, and their Irish Commander, Colonel John Henry Patterson" By: Yanky Fachler

Volume:57, Year: 2004

Number: 5, Season: Fall

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  • "An Update on Project 112 and SHAD: A Lesson from the Past" By: Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA)
  • "Chaplain Deploys to Serve Jewish Personnel in Afghanistan" By: Lt. Col. Susan H. Meisner, U.S. Army, JWV Post 10
  • "An I.D. Bracelet Comes Home - 60 Years Later" By: Herbert Kaufman, Post 529

Number: 4, Season: Summer

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  • "Letter from Afghanistan" By: LTC Susan Meisner, Post 10 Jersey City New Jersey
  • "The Family Hero" By: Capt. David A. Isquith, USN (Ret.)

Number: 3, Season: Post-Convention

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  • "Convention 2004 Overview" By: Cheryl Waldman,Co-Editor
  • "JWV Oral History Project"
  • "Veterans Invest in America launched at Convention"
  • "2004 JWV National Resolutions"

Number: 2, Season: Spring

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  • "On this Memorial Day, let us also remember our Jewish veterans" By: Seymour "Sy" Brody
  • "Greetings from Rabbi Mitchell Ackerson" By: Rabbi Mitchell Ackerson
  • "Fort Gordon Communications Center Named for Lt. Col. Reuben Abramowitz"
  • "Bookreview: No Greater Glory: The Four Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II" By: Dan Kurzman

Number: 1, Season: Winter

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  • "For some cadets at West Point, Jewish life is shelter in a storm" By: Peter Ephross, JTA
  • "Female Rabbis in the Military" By: Chaplain (LTC) Bonnie Koppell
  • "Chanukah in the Sandbox" By: Mikhail Ekshtut
  • "Jewish war vets honor their dead, the past" By: Bob Batz Jr. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, reprinted with permission of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • "Jewish War Veterans Seeking Used Stamps for Projects" By: Stephanie Slater, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Volume:56, Year: 2003

Number: 5, Season: Winter

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  • "Marine Saves Money and Lives" By: Cpl. David Salazar, USMC
  • "Jewish Soldiers in Iraq Celebrate Holidays in Saddam's Former Palace" By: Joe Berkofsky, JTA
  • "My Mitzvah (My Good Deed)" By: Bernard Friedenberg, Commander Post #39, JWV
  • "Be Not Afraid" By: Majority Leader Tom Delay
  • "Allied Veterans Trip to Israel" By: Dan Ortiz

Number: 4, Season: Fall

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  • "Lone Army Female Rabbi Called To Do It All" By: Jon R. Anderson, Stars and Stripes, European Edition
  • "Adopting A Fighting Unit in Israel Shows Support, Improves Troop Morale and Welfare" By: Aaron M. Zeff, Junior Vice Commander, San Francisco JWV Post #152
  • "Israeli Technology Saw Action in the Iraq War" By: Seymour "Sy" Brody, National Editor
  • "Passover in Iraq" By: Commander Irving Elson, Chaplain, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
  • "Passover in Iraq: Letter from Mosul" By: Rabbi Carlos Huerta

Number: 3, Season: Post-Convention

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  • "Lieutenant General H. Steven Blum Chief, National Guard Bureau, Excerpts of remarks at the National Commander's Banquet" By: Lieutenant General H. Steven Blum Chief, National Guard Bureau
  • "The Honorable Anthony J. Principi, Secretary of Veteran Affairs, Excerpts of remarks during the 108th National Convention" By: Anthony J. Principi, Secretary of Veteran Affairs
  • "The Impact of Jewish War Veterans on American Jewry" By: Dr. Seymour S. Weisman, Ph.D., National Historian and Senior Fellow NMAJMH

Number: 2, Season: Spring

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  • "What are Jewish Mothers Doing in the Military" By: Seymour "Sy" Brody, National Editor
  • "The Second Time Around" By: Irving Luban, JWV Post 569

Number: 1, Season: Winter

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  • "A Message From The Commander" By: Daniel Weiss
  • "A Sedar in Tokyo - Thanks to Gen. Douglas MacArthur" By: Harry Burgeman, JWV Post 258
  • "An Army Doctor in Vietnam" By: Marc Phillip Yablonka, Military Affairs Correspondent

Volume:55, Year: 2002

Number: 5, Season: Autumn

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  • "A Message From The Commander" By: Daniel Weiss
  • "General Sir John Monash: A Jewish Australian General Who was Master of the Battlefield In World War I" By: Seymour "Sy" Brody, National Editor

Number: 4, Season: Summer

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  • "Lest we forget Jews at American Military Cemeteries" By: Jacob Weinberger, LCDR, USNR and Rita C. Altman, COL., USMCR(Ret).
  • "Generations" By: Gloria Abramowitz, Army Brat and Spouse
  • "When I Really Needed A Friend" By: Arthur Miller

Number: 3, Season: Summer

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  • "Convention 2002 Overview" By: Alan Zimmerman, National Programs/Public Relations Coordinator
  • "Excerpts from the speech given by General Richard B. Myers" By: General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Number: 2, Season: Spring

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  • "JWV International Assembly 2002 and Solidarity Mission to Israel" By: PNC Ronald Zeigler
  • "The Allied Veterans Mission 2002" By: PNC Monroe E. Mayer

Number: 1, Season: Winter

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  • "A Ghost of Normandy" By: Liz Doup
  • "The Real War" By: Thomas L. Friedman © New York Times. Reprinted by Permission, All Rights Reserved
  • "America Wakes Up to Bioterrorism" By: Leonard A. Cole

Volume:54, Year: 2001

Number: 3, Season: Post-Convention

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  • "Excerpts from Keynote Speaker Robin Higgins, Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs" By: Robbin Higgins
  • "Convention 2001 Overview" By: Alan Zimmerman

Number: 2, Season: Spring

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  • "STANDING THE SOUTHERN POST" By: Gary E. Warren, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps
  • "Yesterday's Past: Corp. David H. Rubenstein" By: Paul E. Curran
  • "Jacob Barsimson Paved the Way for Full Citizenship Rights" By: Seymour "Sy" Brody

Number: 1, Season: Winter

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  • "Col. Leon Dyer served his country in three wars" By: Seymour "Sy" Brody

Volume:53, Year: 2000

Number: 5, Season: Fall

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  • "TRAINING MERCHANT MARINERS FOR WAR: The Role of the United States Coast Guard" By: Rear Admiral Patrick M. Stillman, Assistant Commandant for Governmental and Public Affairs
  • "Questions of Prejudice of Lower Awards for Jewish Heroes Still Persists!" By: Seymour "Sy" Brody, National Editor

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